Over the hump, Stuck in the Mud, Runing from the Man

Turns out our hotel did not have the hot tub or office facilities as advertised and was located in an area where there were no restaurants or stores within walking distance. Although having a hot tub was the primary reason I had booked a room there in the first place and we would have to lug the huge truck and trailer around with us every time we needed something from the store, our options were limited since I had prepaid for the room, so we grudgingly acquiesced and checked in.

I did manage to get a fair amount of work done over the next two days as we holed up at the Quality Suites (Read my review) and we made do or ordered take-out as needed.

When we left Tuesday morning, there was a bit of a hassle as we did not realize that were already in the Mountain Time Zone and thought we had another hour left before checkout when the maid came to the door. I was on the phone with my office as Julie packed us up, but over the course of the next hour no less than six people came to the door asking if/when we were to check out and the phone in the room rang two or three times. When we realized were off by an hour, I had called down to the front desk to let them knwo, but the phone rang on for over 15 minutees and I finally gave up and I had explained the situation to the first person who came to the door, but apparently she did not understand ("no speaky"). By the time the sixth person (the Manager) came to the door I had had enough. I hung up the phone and basically lost it and used words I must have learned from a sailor.

Afterwards, we made a hasty getaway (and as the manager wrote our license plate while speaking on the phone). I can bend only so far -- then I break.

Again driving all day and all night, we managed to make it to TenKiller, Oklahoma by about 7:PM the following day.

We did manage to get stuck in the mud on the side of the road after we crossed over into Oklahoma (I had to go, man!). Anyway, I was able to unhitch the truck and pull around to get a better footing and pulled the trailer up and out of the 2' deep hole in the mud. All of this fun occured around 3am.

Total for this segment: 702 miles.